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You could give your users a score and the higher it gets, the more features become available. VPN on/off, registered since x days, ... a bit like normal Email reputation. Also speaking about automation, a legit user probably won't mind if all features aren't available right away or additional 2FA steps are needed. That kind of approach is also in part used in perimeter-less/zero trust security.

Also I'm thinking if Selenium is used, checking timing of the requests might be helpful. (In theory it should be possible to triangulate the users with multiple API servers by the way.)

I went through a similar situation during the end of my studies while also having a part-time job at the same time.

> It has been really challenging going through the daily tasks at work

Was the same for me. I used to visit her one hour a day. I'd recommend spending time with your mother as it is possible but also making sure you don't neglect your other in-person social life. This can go for months or even years. If there are other family members living close, you should create a Whatsapp group and alternate visits if that is possible. And of course tell your company, they'll understand if your performance is lower than normal.

I mean in the US there are only 2 political parties over 1% anyway, so these policies cannot be very tough especially if these are without any pressure. It's quite an irony actually since the idea of a small state is so popular yet it's not being driven forward. On-and-off I'm since 15 years using private energy providers using exclusively solar, water and wind. It's a bit more expensive but negligible compared to other expenses.

> I won't change my behavior, because I think my effect will be negligible and I'd just be like the Amish, being pious while others enjoy.

Well yes, but this is what I mean, the Amish have an effect. Yet I don't think it's not necessary to live like an Amish. Probably it's fine to just pick the next pricier product. A few percent extra paid don't hurt, have a good effect and will promote these products both towards sellers and other buyers.

> If anything they are the opposite of looked up to in pop culture.

Maybe not by their own initiative but I mean there are countless YouTube videos among them and Amish versions of popular songs as well as Southpark and Family guy episodes depicting Amish life style. Our media has quite a bias towards extreme life styles...

> They also mentioned the stat that if 1 person lived totally carbon neutral for 70 years, that would offset only 1 second of current global CO2 emissions, which I'm going to presume is sourced properly.

That's a strawman's argument and in theory would apply to anything in the context of overall society if it was true which is clearly not the case. Because if you really lived completely carbon neutral for decades, you'd probably appear in dozens of TV shows and magazines will have exclusive interviews for you. (Not sure if it's exactly NYT, but you'll sure attract interest) So other people see that and realize: wow, it's actually possible to survive for decades in a carbon neutral way.

In reality it wouldn't be that extreme but it's always a domino effect: your colleagues, friends and family see what you do and be at least lightly influenced by it. Be it just the fact that you do something that people thought would be not possible.

After all, that's how democracy works and how movements grow. It's not that your vote only depends on the campaigns but also on your peers' opinion. It's not that movements in the past haven't been succeeding.

XFCE works quite well, also I found this guide really helpful:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

So in case you consider XFCE, also GTK and other frameworks need to be configured. With closed-source Nvidia drivers the configuration options with Xrandr are limited though IIRC.

It should be a doable effort to implement high-res font rendering - maybe even just the font needs to be swapped out. I think it's great when good software gets maintained and renewed which is the case here as far as I understand even if there are still some things that could be improved. That said, I like the look&feel of CDE, good to see efforts to get this working on Linux.

I also tried Nix (as well as NixOS) but it's obviously difficult to use and has a very steep learning curve. But actually it might be the most flexible and stable package manager out there. So probably the problems mentioned can be fixed by custom configuration but that might require deep-diving into Nix and using Functional Programming for package configs... For some time I also used to just ./configure && make && make install (sometimes combined with stow) to my home dir, that worked also well but makes installing and upgrading tedious.

That said, I'm sticking to Homebrew. Not really sure about this auto-upgrading, maybe it can be deactivated, on the other hand probably it's a good way to keep packages updated.

Also sometimes there is a situation where several people are involved and then it's necessary to forward the arguments back and forth. Better to get those people who don't talk to one another synchronously in a meeting agree/disagree on something without getting all the flak as the intermediate hop.

Meetings are bad but no meetings are even worse...

I'm quite happy about the move to USB-C and changed all my stuff to it as soon as possible. 5 years ago I had several micro usb and mini usb chargers, some of them broken. On a regular base I had to buy new chargers and cables. The MagSafe power supply cables broke easily (but yes, the port was nice). Now there's just one cable for everything, I still have 2 phone fast chargers but both actually work. Also I can just charge my phone without searching for the charger and the laptop can be connected to screen/keyboard with just 1 USB-C cable.

After all, Apple were also the first to sell Desktops without Floppy or Optical drive.

Or "Limit length of output lines"... how about

   $ grep ... | head -n ...

I think this feature comparison misses how grep is supposed to be used. (See also "Pipe output through a pager or other command")

I think at my current work place that I'll soon leave management was caught completely off-guard by wfh. They used to have wfh occasionally but people were mostly using the time for 20% stuff so to say. Technically it's not that demanding but socially (or rather politically) and they completely failed to translate this into the online sphere. More than half of the original team either changed internally or left. For another team it was even more. Personally the time has been stressful and I'm looking forward to spend a few months working on some creative projects.

Also the job market has really changed I think. Salaries seem to have increased and wfh seems more accepted.

So the average case is quite contaminated and later generations enjoy it either directly or indirectly. I recently went down the rabbit hole but I decided to mind my own business for the moment. I think pretty much every spot on earth around that timeframe with some growing economy had under-earthly environmental standards. Certain cancer rates having increased over time is really deterministic from that point of view.

> Germany is in danger of missing its 2030 climate target, despite all its efforts

Which efforts? Germany might look quite progressive when it comes to renewables but lacks a holistic strategy. Energy storage is not discussed at all.

It's good that the Greens are part of the government again to put in larger restrictions but they'll be limited by the other 2 parties. Real change is probably going to be provided by companies like Tesla which actually provide a solution to the storage problem.

Also the article is behind a paywall and from Welt which is from the same publisher as the notorious yellow press publication Bild. Die Zeit (Former editor-in-chief of it is mentioned) hasn't put it on its start page.

To my knowledge risk in insurance speak is probability x cost and insurances don't insure Nuclear reactors.

It's been some time since I lend books from the library that I had to pay late fees. But in university I had to lend many books, sometimes just for an initial literature scan only to return most of them and keep a few long-term. (Or ideally buy them through other channels eventually) I remember one book was very late and I had to pay fees far higher than the original book price. And the only reason was because the lending management was bad (=had a terrible UX) so I didn't know it was due. That was not ideal, as a student you usually don't have much money.

But I think damaged books are usually those that are used frequently. Rare and expensive books tend to be in great shape, even if they are lend out all the time. You just need to register in time for the next available extension slot. Also expensive/rare books are less frequently for take home available.

I've been working both as 1-person team for years but also in larger teams for the same amount of time. In my experience the hermit programmer is some sort of a myth. It's true that sometimes tech staff is more separated from more non-tech staff but that is always a management decision because they think it makes people more efficient.

In fact as a 1-person team it's usually necessary to interface much more often with other non-technical people. In larger (scrum) teams that is usually centralized through a PO or PM. Which is in the long-run usually a good thing, pressure can be extreme for 1-person teams since people call the programmer directly. I used to work at places where sometimes for a time frame of 1 hour a day someone tries to make me listen to his or her ideas. Such a waste of time.

I think programs in /bin used to be usually statically linked. When updating the glibc for instance, this makes the change far more doable. In general dealing with static binaries is much less pain, especially when they haven't been compiled locally/by the distributor for this particular version of the distribution.

In school it used to be a running gag to speculate how astonished the philosophy teacher would be if someone would hand in an essay with just the word "No".

There's one documentary from ARTE.tv, a french-german state-owned TV station that I watched in Spring 2020 but which was from around 5 years ago at that time. I cannot find it but I'd add a link here if I do eventually. (Not easy since so much similar content has popped up since then)

One particular reference (point) the documentary was revolving around was the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies which has been pointing out the problem with zoonotic epidemics/pandemics vs. populations and wild ecosystems intertwining too much. (AIDS, SARS, MERS)

Maybe that's interesting enough:

"Thus, it is highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China. Therefore, the investigation of bat coronaviruses becomes an urgent issue for the detection of early warning signs ..."

Bat Coronaviruses in China, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466186/ from March 2019

That said, all this conspiracy discussion is giving the research a bad taste. I mean they cannot build up a lab in a bat cave or ignore the whole issue. And this is not the first epidemic/pandemic of this sort.

Certainly not true in the area of particle accelerator experiments. Every single step there is done in public so to say. And it's not that it's a niche, literally thousands of scientists and engineers work on this stuff. (Also I know people that had to change thesis topics half-way through, although I cannot fully recall the reasoning for that.)

It's well-known that there has been high-risk coronavirus research across the globe. Actually there are even documentaries from before the pandemic, not sure why this has to be double-emphasized.

Yes and no. Speaking of hibernation/standby/wakeup, that just works (TM). Also the chassis is more robust than classical PC laptops - although many manufacturers have catched up. On the other hand the keyboards have mixed quality, CPU/GPU model and choice has been questionable (below average performance). Also other manufacturers don't seem to have problems building "always-on" systems when it comes to tablets or smartphones. Because this is essentially what modern Macbooks are, some weird fusion of a laptop and a standard consumer appliance. (It works like a stereo) So I'd argue Apple has been focussing on the latter and ignored performance/storage requirements which is actually more practical if you really carry the laptop around a lot.

On the other hand I'm much more comfortable buying a 500$+ phone from OnePlus that gets updated for 5 years. Maybe it can turn out to be good for both sides with manufacturers selling more high-end devices. (Rather than designing and selling cheaper but many low-end throwaway devices)

But finally this happened. The issue has been around for years. I think (hope) this will dramatically improve the update situation on Android. I wonder though how close Fuchsia is for day-to-day use on current phones

Sure, but it's more than frustrating to go to a lawyer for a service you are supposed to just get, even if you can get free consulting through an insurance. That's why most people don't jump through those hoops and work-around it themselves. (I.e. do nothing usually which is bad for both parties)

Also there has been a general official agreement so far that modernizations justify higher rents. Which is just nuts because why would a one-time investment justify a basically indefinitely going increased rent...

But it's also a symbolic value, that something is fundamentally changing. 15000 apartments isn't that much for Berlin but a billion is.

Of course more apartments are needed and Berlin needs to grow in height and diameter. But also there is no point in landlords hardly putting any efforts in to keep apartments in good shape. Needed repairs and modern upgrades are labeled as luxury renovations which is just a total distortion of reality. At the same time there are small, non-corporate landlords which put in more effort, are more approachable but who in reality invested in a casino-like asset. IMHO real-estate makes only sense for institutional investors, private or governmental because any single error can be financially disastrous and needs to be averaged out.

That's why I backed the bill but I hope everyone is working towards something better...

The Guardian is great, also I think they still have a free full text feed (although I think donations are appreciated)

Not sure if it's implied but JavaScript was basically ideated as Scheme with C syntax in the Browser. That concept didn't take off for quite some time but pure functional programming within React actual got quite some popularity. Even "plain React" is borrowing a lot of concepts from FP, especially when combined with Flux and other add-ons. During that time also Clojure due to Om (React with Clojure) gained some popularity.

One language where FP basically arrived in the mainstream is by the way Scala. And there are other newer language which allow for FP'ish programming like Kotlin.

But otherwise it's true, languages like Schema or Haskell will probably not arrive in the mainstream soon.

Not really on-topic but related. Until 10 years ago in Germany there used to be compulsory military service but alternatively it was possible to work instead in social services of which nursing homes were a large quantity. I think coincidentally this was a good way to let not completely indifferent people work in not really great circumstances. Probably the dynamics there aren't the greatest, low pay and some people are probably just there because it was easy to apply. Apart from the dirty work I think nursing homes could be actually great places for the inhabitants and so much better than living isolated which is more common the older people get.

My two favorites are probably the hedgehog theorem (= number of discontinuities if you were to comb a hedgehog)

https://clever-geek.imtqy.com/articles/784617/index.html

And that the determinant is the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the vectors:

https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Linear_Algebra/Inter...

It's quite stunning how far one can get with visualizations. I think it's an indirect discovery of Euler though (who did many visual proofs) that visualizations are really just that and to do proofs textual reasoning is necessary.